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An American police detective, Priscilla Booth, inherits a house in Cornwall from her murdered cousin, but she must live there 30 days. Her lover, Mort Sinclair, a multi-disciplined criminologist comes down from Oxford to stay with her. Gradually they get drawn into the mysterious past of the murdered woman, as a new murder occurs. Their suspects include people who frequent the village pub and also TV actors and technicians who are filming a miniseries at a nearby manor. They hear stories of ghosts and smugglers and Priscilla finds herself the object of seduction by both a leading actor and a powerful producer. Priscilla and Mort learn more and more astonishing details about her dead cousin, Sylvia. Exploring a secret tunnel, she suddenly finds herself alone with the killer. Mort cultivates the local police inspector, who is impressed by Mort's reputation. However, this acts as a split between Mort and Priscilla, and the solution to the murder comes with Mort's clue-solving, plus some unexpected physical exertion from an unsuspected quarter. Now that the murderer is caught, Mort and Priscilla must endeavor to mend their fractured relationship.

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Editorial Reviews

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"...keen detective work mesh(es) effectively." -- Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Gene Stratton, a much-traveled former CIA case officer, is a well-known genealogist who has had three books published: Plymouth Colony, Applied Genealogy, and Killing Cousins. Killing Cousins, a murder mystery, was the first of the Mort and Priscilla series, and he plans a number of others.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

Ever since reading Kissing Cousins when it first appeared, I have been waiting for another Mort Sinclair mystery. Cornish Conundrum was well worth the wait. I'm a mystery fan as well as an amateur genealogist. This book was not quite so heavy on genealogy as Kissing Cousins, but still kept me guessing until the very end. If there were clues dropped regarding the murderer, I missed them all. There was a legal husband and wife swap that confused me, however, and did not seem to matter in the advancement of the story. Early in the book it mentions one of Mort's theories called Stratton's law - that sequels stink! Not so - this is a good read.

This is strictly for cerebral mystery fans who can live without setting, atmosphere and dialogue as long as the mystery is sufficiently ambiguous. There are red herrings aplenty, including a spurious digression about wife-swapping and lots of genealogy that goes nowhere. Even the many chapters spent peeling away the layers of knowledge about the first murder victim turn out to be totally irrelevant to the resolution, which comes out of left field. An unknown mystery tenant who turns out to be very important -- you won't know anything about the person's existence until the inspector and the investigator sit down to explain it all to us folks. I prefer my mystery books to give me a fighting chance to figure it all out.